Ausstellungseröffnung: Richard Siegal Ballet of Difference - art.Life

In the organizer's words:

The opening of the multimedia installation"Richard Siegal. art.Life" will take place on Wednesday, May 28 from 7 pm. The Lenbachhaus cordially invites you and your friends to attend.

The video "Japanese Precision Walking", also known as "Shudan Kodo", went viral in 2012 and captivated a worldwide audience with amazing visual effects. It shows a group of 50 athletes walking in perfect unison through a sports hall, moving in continuously changing geometric formations: they split, merge, diverge at high speed, then converge again, intersect and connect. These images, which touch on a complex of social issues of interaction and of the individual and the collective, fired the imagination of choreographer Richard Siegal. In 2022, Siegal and his company Ballet of Difference undertook a three-week research residency at the Nippon Sports University in Yokohama, Japan. There they learned the strict principles and rules of conduct of precision marching from the athletes of "Shudan Kodo". The experience gained from this flowed into the piece "Ballet of (Dis)Obedience", which was created in 2023. In 2024, Siegal returned to Japan to create the performance "Collective Action" together with 53 athletes and two dancers. Here he focuses on the inner logic of "Shudan Kodo". It is analogous to the function of the digital - in other words, it generates a constantly new combinatorics from basic formulas. The music is by alva noto, the lighting design by Matthias Singer. A video documentation of "Collective Action" is the main component of the multi-channel video installation "art.Life", which will premiere at the Lenbachhaus in May 2025.

A production by Muffatwerk Munich in cooperation with the Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting, the Goethe-Institut Tokyo and Synaesthetica. Takes place as part of the DANCE Festival Munich.

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No registration is required.